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HUMANITY'S FOOTPRINT: MOMENTUM, IMPACT, AND OUR GLOBAL ENVIROMENT

by Walter K. Dodds

Published by Columbia University Press. 1st. 2008

Nearly fine condition. For the first time in history, humans have taxed the sustaining capacity of Earth's ecosystems. Walter Dodds depicts in clear, nontechnical terms the root causes and global environmental effects of human behavior. Trends in population growth, resource use, and global environmental impacts of the past two centuries, such as the greenhouse effect, ozone depletion, water pollution, and species extinctions and introductions. Pictorial cardwraps. xiv and 270 pages including index.

A lovely copy.

ISBN: 9780231139670
Stock no. 1710819

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Contents

  • ONE Collision Course: An Expanding Appetite for Resources Coupled with Population Growth on a Finite Planet
  • TWO The Insidious Explosion: Global Trands in Population Growth and Resource Use Expand Our Footprint
  • THREE Shock Wave from the Insidious Explosion: Momentum of Human Effects on Our Planet
  • FOUR Weeds and Shrinking Violets: Pests on the Move and the Ecological Holocaust
  • FIVE Survival on a Finite Earth: The Ultimate Game, or Why Human Nature Destines Us to Use More Than Our Share
  • SIX Why Humans Foul the Nest: Cultural and Genetic Roots Run Deep
  • SEVEN Searching for Answers: Can We Achieve Sustainability, or Are We Screwed?
  • EIGHT No More Business as Usual: Transcendence, Enlightenment, Rationalization, Hope, and Action
  • NINE Consilience: Socioenvironmental Restoration and Sustainable Inhabitation of Earth
  • Appendices

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